“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.” – JOHN GALT

Why We Ought to BOYCOTT PayPal?

As a freelance writer I once registered with PayPal and ‘nearly’ used its services. PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing

Pamela Geller beats PayPal!

payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet, and most freelance writers use this remittance system for the payment of their services with online clients and companies abroad. Instead of using PayPal my New York-based company sends my monthly salary through bank-to-bank transaction without any cut or transfer fee.

This week I was disgusted with PayPal after learning that Pamela Geller, American book author and the owner of controversial blogsite Atlas Shrugs, received a review of her account by PayPal executives who issued a non-objective and pro-terrorist verdict that “it has been determined” that I was “currently in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy.” According to PayPal, “Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime.” (Emphasis included)

While PayPal had so much time to review Pamela Geller’s account and then accused her of promoting “hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime,” it ignored hundreds or thousands of Jihadist and radical Islamist sites that openly call for the genocide or mass murder of the Jews and the infidels. They also refused to review a PayPal-user Jihadist site that openly calls for the death of the producers of South Park. Why the double standard? Who is actually committing hate speech and calling for the death of Muslim non-believers across the world anyway? Whose God and prophet openly calls for the annihilation of Jews and the infidels?

It seems that most people ignore the fact that there’s a so-called sacred book that makes a particular race guilty of an unspecified crime since birth. And if you’re part of this race, your only choice is to convert to this intolerant religion or die. Who’s racist now? Yes, PayPal has the right to discriminate against its clients and appease and support terrorist organizations, but we have the duty to resist bigotry and irrational appeasement by saying “NO TO PAYPAL!”

I expressed my profound support to Ms Geller and sent an email to PayPal. Here’s what I said:

I’m writing to express my great dismay and astonishment that Pamela Geller and her work at Atlas Shrugs has been accused of “promoting hate, violence, racial intolerance and/or the “financial” exploitation of a crime.” Atlas Shrugs is a news site. Ms. Geller finds the news and writes about it. Thousands of readers come to Atlas Shrugs every day to find the news.

Please stop sending me email ads and invitation to join PayPal. I do not want to transact with an organization that supports terrorists. I will also blog about the idiocy and political correctness of PayPal so that people who love free speech, individual rights, and freedom will stop using PayPal.

I HOPE PEOPLE AT PAYPAL WOULD BE NEXT CASUALTIES OF FUTURE TERRORIST ATTACKS. So many innocent people were murdered by Islamic terrorists. It is the appeasers like the people at PayPal who deserve to be the next casualties of Islamic terrorism.

PayPal replied: “Thanks for your email. We’ll do our best to get back to you within 24
hours. It might take a bit longer (depending on the question), but we
try hard not to keep you waiting longer than 72 hours.” However there was no further reply after more than 72 hours.

As many of you know, on Friday of last week, my paypal account was “restricted.” After a recent review of my account they said, “it has been determined” that I was “currently in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy. Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime.”

Huh?

I posted it over the weekend and received over a thousand letters of support, hundreds of ccs of paypal account cancellations…….. the people spoke. Love that.

And so today, about an hour ago, a very pleasant and rather deliberately clueless executive called me from paypal to say it was all a big misunderstanding and Atlas would be reinstated (and the subsequent restriction of SIOA and FDI removed also).

Not so fast, Leslie.

I asked her why I was singled out and who designated me as a hate speech site, and on what basis? Why was revolution muslim (which threatened to murder the producers of Comedy Central) and Imam Awlaki DVDs part of the paypal stable of vendors? She said she was “unaware of a hate speech designation and would inquire and call me back.”

And so she did.

She said Atlas was mistakenly designated when “in review.” I asked why was Atlas in review. Paypal has been on this website since 2005. She did not have an answer. I asked what recourse do smaller websites have? As this is my real concern. My soapbox is pretty big, but what about small blogs?

I told Leslie that reinstating me was not good enough. If a site is designated a “hate site,” who decides? Once designated, you have two choices — lose paypal, or change content. Unfair, mon frere. Leslie agreed. She said she was going to recommend a third choice so that one could contest the designation before a mandatory choice had to be made of either signing off of paypal or changing content.

Frankly, I find this weak. They should remove the designation altogether. If they are going to allow jihadis to raise dough using paypal, what’s the point of any hate speech designation?

Needless to say, I am not going back. I told her that, too. She wished I would reconsider. But, no. I am sticking with Gpal — the G stands for guns 🙂

The real story is that we stood up and the weasels backed down. We will fight each battle this way.

Awlaki is the imam to the worst of the jihad stars, like the 911 Muslim terrorists, the Fort Hood jihadi Hasan, the Times Square car bomber, the Christmas balls bomber, 7/7 London Bombers ,7/21 London Bombers, the leader of the transatlantic airline bombers, et al. Read about this killer in the Telegraph.

Here is the Paypal follow-up:

Dear Pamela Geller,

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

This is Leslie from PayPal’s Executive Escalations team. It was a
pleasure speaking with you and I appreciate your willingness to inform
me of your concerns. As we discussed, you have full access to both of
your PayPal accounts. I understand that for your Account,
stopislamization@aol.com, you are working with our Compliance team to
provide the information we require of all non-profit accounts. I also
notified our Compliance team that your other Account,
writeatlas@aol.com, should not be handled as a non-profit account.

Again, Ms. Geller, thank you for speaking with me today.

Sincerely,
Leslie
Executive Escalations
PayPal, an eBay Company

UPDATE: The nazis and the haters over at CAIR issued a press release cheering the Paypal restriction.

CAIR Applauds PayPal’s Decision to Drop Anti-Islam Hate Site

WASHINGTON, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded a decision by PayPal, the leading online payment service, to drop the anti-Islam hate site “Atlas Shrugs,” whose owner claims that “Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by Islam” and that Islam “mandates” lies and deception.

Qur’an 3:28 – “Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security”

Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir) – “… believers are allowed to show friendship outwardly, but never inwardly.”

Commentary (Abu Darda) – “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.”

Will CAIR issue a new press release now that Paypal came crawling back?